Amana HVAC Systems in Phoenix

About the Amana brand

Let us be plain about our relationship to the name, which is none. Bleuwave HVAC is an independent contractor. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or an authorized dealer of Amana or Daikin, and Amana, ComfortBridge, Daikin One and any other marks on this page belong to their owners. We service the equipment. We do not speak for it.

Amana product families found in Phoenix homes

• Packaged units: the APG, APH and APC families are Daikin-family packaged equipment. On a flat-roofed block home in Glendale or Mesa, this is the cabinet on the roof doing everything at once.
• Packaged terminal units: Amana PTAC and PTHP families are the through-wall units that heat and cool a single room. In the Valley they show up in casitas, converted garages, guest suites and small condos, and they are a different service animal from a central system. Our through-wall unit guide covers what they can and cannot do.
• Communicating controls: ComfortBridge and Daikin One-compatible controls, shared with Goodman. The intelligence lives in the equipment, and the thermostat is mostly a messenger.

Common problems and repair considerations

The PTAC and PTHP units have their own patterns. They sit low on an exterior wall, so their coils collect ground-level dust, their sleeves collect nests and their drains collect whatever the monsoon washes in. The wall sleeve also has to be sealed against the stucco or you are cooling the neighborhood. On the communicating equipment, fault codes are specific, and a mismatched thermostat is the most common self-inflicted wound we see. Homeowner troubleshooting is the short list: thermostat set to cool, a clean filter, one breaker reset, a look for ice on the line, and clear space around the outdoor unit. If the system still will not cool, shut it off and let a technician open the cabinet.

Repair vs replacement for an Amana system

A PTAC that has failed is usually replaced rather than repaired, because the unit is self-contained and a new one slides into the same wall sleeve. Whether a casita or an addition should stay on a through-wall unit or move to a ductless mini-split is a design question, and design questions get answered in the room with a tape measure, not on a web page. We cannot size a system from here and we cannot diagnose one either.

Parts, warranty and service notes

The best money spent on any of this equipment is the least dramatic: a pre-summer tune-up that cleans the coil, checks the capacitor and clears the drain before June. When replacement is the right answer, the financing page explains options on approved credit, and an on-site evaluation turns a guess into a written, flat-rate scope.